Kindergarten fiction passage about a new baby sister with hiccups: 72 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Max has a new baby sister. She is tiny, and she sleeps and cries a lot. Mom is busy with her all day.
Max feels left out.
One night the baby gets the hiccups. Hic! Hic! She frowns. Mom looks tired.
Max makes a silly face. Hic! The baby stares at him. Max sticks out his tongue. The baby smiles, and the hiccups stop.
"You are a great big brother," says Mom.
Who is new in Max's home? in the text
What does the baby get one night? in the text
What does Max do to help? in the text
What does Mom call Max at the end? in the text
Why does Max feel left out at first? think about it
The same topic and facts written three ways, so a mixed class can read and talk about one text. Each group’s sheet shows only a shape; the key says which is which.
Max has a new baby. It is his sister. She is tiny. She naps. She cries. Mom is busy.
Max feels sad.
One night the baby has hiccups. Hic! Hic! Mom is tired.
Max makes a silly face. The baby stares. She smiles, and the hiccups stop.
"Good job, big brother," says Mom.
Max has a new baby sister. She is tiny, and she sleeps and cries a lot. Mom is busy with her all day.
Max feels left out.
One night the baby gets the hiccups. Hic! Hic! She frowns. Mom looks tired.
Max makes a silly face. Hic! The baby stares at him. Max sticks out his tongue. The baby smiles, and the hiccups stop.
"You are a great big brother," says Mom.
Max has a brand new baby sister. She is very tiny, and all she does is sleep and cry. Mom is busy with her all day long.
Max feels left out and a little bit lonely.
One night the baby gets the hiccups. Hic! Hic! She frowns, and Mom looks so tired.
Max makes the silliest face he can. The baby stares at him with wide eyes. Then she smiles, and her hiccups stop.
"You are a wonderful big brother," says Mom.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 72 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.2. That is a formula's estimate from sentence length and syllables, and it is not a Lexile or a guided reading level, so check it against your students.
There are five. 4 ask for something the text says directly and 1 ask the reader to work something out from clues. Each has an answer in the key, and the answers are written as a teacher would accept them, not as the only possible wording.
About 1 minute read aloud at 100 words a minute. For a one-minute fluency check, paste it into the fluency timer and use the word count.
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